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Show Helping the Blind. The wind was blowing a bit more than a gale last night when a benevolent benevo-lent old chap stopped to put a dime In the hat of a shivering blind man on the public square. The donor nearly near-ly dropped the coin, but the mendi-can't mendi-can't shoved his hat underneath it and skilfully rescued it. "Why, you're not blind!" cried the giver, scornfully. "No, sir," confessed the beggar, "I'm just taking' a pars place while he has a bit o' rest He's blind sir-been sir-been blind from birth." "Where is he taking his rest?" demanded de-manded the stranger, still unconvinced. uncon-vinced. "Why, he er why, ne's gone to a movin' picture show." Cleveland Plain Dealer. |